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First Principles: It Is of Great Importance To Set A Resolution, Not To Be Shaken, Never To Tell An Untruth
“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it … Continue reading
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Tagged All Good Disposition, Depraves, Falsehood, First Principles, Great Importance, Heart, In Time, Not Shaken, Resolution, Tell, Thomas Jefferson, Tongue, Untruth
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Finding the Good
I had a discussion with someone many years ago about why I wanted two princesses to be familiar with the literary classics from which there were derived the 5′ Shelf of Books aka Harvard Classics. After all, the contention was, … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, Applcable, Artistically, Assertation, Being, Best, Book, Can, Capable, Certainty, Choice, Choose, Churchill, Commotion, Confusion, Consistentcy, Contention, Creation, Culture, Daily Smoke, Depiction, Discern, Discussion, Do, Education Draw, Emotion, Experience, Exposure, Extent, Fiction, Find, Five Foot Shelf of Books, Forgot, Friction, Future, Glory, Good, Harvard Classics, Heard, Hesitation, Historicity, Human Beings, Human Soul, Humans, Illusion, Imagination, Imminent, Implicit, Investigation, Learn, Lfie, Literary, Literary Classics, Man, Meaning, Much, Mystery, Need, Neglect, Nuance, Obscure, Observation, Out, Perception, Photograph, Plays, Poem, Poetry, Pretenses, Principles, Question, Reading, Reason, Remember, Resolution, Right and Wrong, Rise, Role, School, Secure, Seen, Senses, Shakespeare, Sincere, Songs, Sonnet, Story Teller, Taint, Teach, The Tempest, Truth, Understood, Veil, Verbal, Visible, Ways, Wisdom, Words
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An Expectancy of Government
A continuing look at American history: An Expectancy of Government by Michael Doyle Approaches as it had been in hesitancy No gave the Constitution great expectancy As a blue print for what had been built To house a people in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1800, Agrarian, Alien and Sedition Act, American History, Americas, Andrew Jackson, Battle of New Orleans, Blue Print, British, Clause, Commerical Power, Common Man, Consolidation, Constitution, Country, Debt, Destruction, Dire, Division, Double, Ear, Economy, Election, Enumerated Powers, Era, Expectancy, Fair Trade, Farewell Address, Farm, Federalist, Federalist Party, Foreign Entanglement, Foreign Policy, French Revolution, Global, Golden Goose, Government, Great Plan, Hamilton, Harbinger, Ideology, Indispensable Man, James Madison, Jefferson, John Adams, Judiciary, Knell, Libel, Liberty, Light, Loose, Louisiana Purchase, Madison v. Marbury, Marshall, Maturation, Misery, Missouri, Missouri Compromise, Monarch, Monroe Doctrine, Mount Vernon, Nation, National Bank, Necessary, Neutrality, New Jersey, Nullifcation, Photograph, Pirate, Plow, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Potential, Power, Preservation, Primacy, Proper, Prosperity, Railroad, Republic, Resolution, Responsibility, Review, Right, Risk, Safety, Shoulder, Slander, Slavery, Strict Construction, Tariff, Teach, Territory, The Star Spangled Banner, Virginia, War of 1812, Washington, Washington D.C., Wolf
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With the Clarity of 2020
Rung in the New Year having discovered how to get YouTube to work on my television via Ruku both of which items appear to be smarter than I am. Via this, I was able to get the KTLA Tournament of … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, 21st Century, Alone, Beauty, Best Foot, Brilliance, Cadence, Care, Change, Clairity, Closeness, Community, Courage, Crane, Dazzle, Dream, Equality, Fable, Face, Faith, Family, Fantasy, Floral Float, Forgiving, Forward, Glory, Hint, History, Home, Hope, KTLA, Legacy, Life, Living, Love, Marching Band, Meant, New Year, Origami, Pageantry, Path, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Reminder, Resolution, Rose Parade, Ruku, Scenery, Selfie, Share, Smart, Smile, Spent, Television, Theme, Tournament of Roses Parade, Toward, Tranquility, Whimsy, Women, youtube
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Thought For the Day: Let Our New Year’s Resolution Be To Be There For One Another As Fellow Members of Humanity, In the Finest Sense of the Word
“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” – Goran Persson Building a sense of viable and sustainable community is essential for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Be There, Fellow, Fine, Goran Persson, Humanity, New Year's, One Another, Our, Resolution, Sense, Thought For the Day, We, Word
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First Principles: Resolution One: I Will Live For God. Resolution Two: If No One Else Does, I Still Will
“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.” – Jonathan Edwards
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Tagged First Principles, God, I, If, Jonathan Edwards, Live, No One, One, Resolution, Still, Two
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Thought For the Day: New Year Resolutions Allow Us To Affectively Start Fresh
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a … Continue reading
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Tagged Effective, Fresh, Gilber K Chesterson, New Ears, New Eyes, New Soul, New Year, Object, Resolution, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Act Worthy of Yourselves
“Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of America. … Continue reading
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Tagged America, At, Country, Danger, Despair, Earth, Enemy, First Principles, Fortunes, Free, Friends, Happiness, Heaven, Joseph Warren, Liberty, Power, Question, Resolution, Self, Unborn, Worthy
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